The law and justice (pis) party that has governed Poland since 2015 has firm ideas about how it wants people to live. It champions the traditional family and paints gay people as a threat. Now the country’s restrictions on abortion, already among the tightest Europe, are about to become tighter. In a ruling on October 22nd the pis-controlled Constitutional Tribunal said that women would no longer be able to cite severe foetal defects as a reason for having an abortion.
Economic Times: Poland’s abortion rules are now among the strictest in any rich country
The representatives of radical far-right group Tradition and Order rally in support of the nearly total ban on abortion recently introduced in Poland near the Embassy of Poland in Kyiv on Oct. 26, 2020.
